The AES has appointed Andres Mayo to take over its presidency from Dr Sean Olive.
Mayo currently serves as Owner and Senior Mastering Engineer at Andres Mayo Mastering and Audio Post in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is an award-winning producer and engineer. He holds a Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the National Technology University in Argentina.
Since 1991, Mayo has worked in audio mastering at facilities in Latin America, London, New York and Ludwigsburg, Germany. In 1994 he was co-founder of Mr Master, the first pro mastering facility in Argentina, which later became Andres Mayo Mastering and Audio Post, offering 5.1 mixing and mastering.He has credits on more than 2,000 albums, as well as two Grammy Awards as a producer and six Carlos Gardel Technical Excellence Awards.
Additionally, he has served as the AES VP for Latin America for two consecutive terms, co-chairing more than 50 AES events in the region, including the first Latin American Conferences in 2007 (Buenos Aires), 2008 (Mexico) and 2009 (Sao Paulo), as well as the first Latin Producers Panel, in Spanish, at an international AES Convention (AES137). He has also served four years as Chair of the AES Argentina Section and remains Vice Chairman of the Technical Committee for Recording Technology and Procedures (TC-RTP).
Mayo speaks fluent Spanish, English and Portuguese, and has been keynote speaker to more than 60 conferences held throughout Latin America, the US and Canada. He has been presented with the AES Board of Governors Award (2009) and the AES Citation Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Latin American Professional Audio Community (2011).
‘I strongly feel that the recent LA Convention has been a resonant success in all aspects,’ he says. ‘With more than 300 exhibitors and 350-plus presentations, workshops, tutorials and papers, not only have we proved that the AES is alive and kicking, but also that there is absolutely no convention in the world that can provide the audience with such a high level of education in all aspects of professional audio. I look forward to serving as president as we expand the reach of the AES in the upcoming year.’
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